A health complex built in various phases from 1927 to 1936, based on the winning project of the competition organised in 1917 by the Mancomunitat de Catalunya. This project, drawn up by Rafael Masó and Josep Maria Pericas, was executed nine years later when Masó, affected by a political sanction, cannot be listed as the architect of the works, although it is recorded that he was working at least in 1926 and 1927.

The Torribera country house, also known as Can Setantí, in Vall Carcerenya, has been documented since the 15th century. It is a mental clinic made up of five isolated pavilions which, together with the porter's lodge, the director's house and the chapel, form an urban garden-city space that adapts to the topography of the terrain, forming terraces at different levels by means of platforms linked by stairways, with garden areas on each side.

The general layout of the mental clinic emphasises the axis of symmetry that rises in steps from the semicircular access plaza to the depot at the top of the hill. This divides the areas for men and women. The other singular constructions (the director's house, chapel and general services) are adapted to the topography of the large Torribera estate (of which the old country house remains), especially in relation to their surroundings (pergolas, terraces, etc.).

The porter's lodge is a two-storey rectangular enclosure. It was conceived as the gateway to the enclosure and formed the axis of symmetry of the whole complex. The walls of the main façades combine stucco and artificial stone ornamentation. In the centre there are three arches and a cornice surrounds the entire building with neo-baroque gables. The busts of four great doctors of medicine are also represented: Mariano Cubí, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Emil Wilhem Magnus Goerg Kraepellin and Jean-Martin Charcot. The roof is of Arabic tile with two slopes. The magnificent wrought-iron door stands out.

As for the director's house, its design is closely linked to traditional rural architecture. It is a four-sided building with a square floor plan and a flat ceramic tile hipped roof with accentuated eaves. The façade has a hierarchy of triple central openings that contrast with the flat, solid wall. The entrance door, in the form of a round arch, is preceded by a porch with an opening in the centre and one on each side. On the ground floor and the atrium there is a balcony with a triple window. It is currently used as a centre for higher studies of the UNED-Terrassa and is known as the Tower building.

We know that the church and the convent pavilion housed the conventual residence of the nuns who worked in the psychiatric centre. It is linked to the chapel of the Torribera enclosure by a porticoed bridge. The building has a Noucentist formal and ornamental language and forms part of the set of pavilions that won the competition for the Mental Clinic in 1917. It also has neo-Romanesque features, with two apses and a central apse with ambulatory, where the sacristy is added. The building consists of a chapel with a tower and a general services pavilion. The façades are stone walls plastered and painted on rustic natural stone plinths. The openings are mostly made of semicircular arches with carpentry and ornamental elements.

The ground plan of the complex is elongated and varied – it adapts to the contour lines and is resolved by means of symmetrical axes and recessed bodies, which provides a great variability of volumes. The building's volumetric complexity is evident in the play of sloping roofs with flat glazed tiles and small eaves. The bell tower of the chapel is crowned with a pinnacle with an octagonal base.

The buildings of the Canigó i Montserrat pavilion form part of the set of pavilions of the mental clinic that won the competition promoted by the Mancomunitat de Catalunya. Their formal and ornamental language is adapted to the 1917 project. They are isolated pavilions with a rectangular ground floor and a geometric garden. The façades are predominantly plastered and painted on natural and rustic stone plinths. The openings are horizontal and the porches sit on concrete pillars with neoclassical ornamental elements. The hip roofs are pitched and made of Arabic tiles.

The Gaudí i Verdaguer pavilion is also part of this competition. They are the only ones that were built according to the original project, both in terms of location and formal language. They were two isolated pavilions with a ground floor and basement with a geometric garden surrounded by brambles and a sloping roof of flat glazed tiles and wrought iron elements. The façades have the same aesthetics as the previous pavilions, but in this case the openings have English carpentry with a profusion of dividers and formal decorative elements in sandstone.

Finally, the mortuary is a building with a single rectangular, almost square floor plan. The façades also combine stucco with artificial stone ornamentation on the plinth. The very simple façades combine small rectangular openings tied together by a sill lintel with openings topped with round arches.

Throughout, a unity of style and a joint, rational use of materials are evident.

In 1917, the Diputació de Barcelona held a competition for the construction of an Observation Clinic and Hospital for the Treatment of Nervous Diseases on the Torribera estate in Santa Coloma de Gramenet. The winning design was that of Pericas i Masó, but it was incomplete.

Construction began in 1926 but was extended until 1936 because of the dictatorship and Masó's inability to appear in the project. Masó only designed the Immaculada pavilion (now the Canigó Pavilion) and the Montserrat pavilion; the rest of the pavilions, the church and the director's house were designed by Pericas, and the works as a whole were directed by Pericas himself and the psychiatrist Tomàs Busquet. Although they have undergone many changes and modifications, there are two pavilions that still retain their original external form.

This project, very much in line with the ideology of Noucentist modernity, was intended to put an end to the contrast between urban Catalonia, cultured and open to the world, and rural Catalonia, impoverished and lacking in opportunities. For the Noucentistes, political and ethical ideas converged with artistic ones: modernisation and national construction within a European and Mediterranean framework.

Around 1970, new pavilions were added, which were out of keeping with the general layout.

Today, the former clinic is used for a variety of functions. Some buildings, such as the entrance pavilion, the Canigó pavilion and the Montserrat pavilion, are still managed by the Barcelona Provincial Council, and most of the rest, including the Torribera country house, have been ceded to the University of Barcelona, where subjects related to health and nutrition are taught.